Playtest notes 7 Aug 2025

Internal playtest107 entries37 bug fixes22 balance changes17 interface changes16 art updates7 content additions7 wording fixes1 audio update

This is a pre-release internal note from the closed playtest, quoted as it was written for testers. It describes a build that no longer exists; treat it as history, not as a description of the current game.

A new week, a new patch! This one introduces a few card reworks, a balance pass (especially for the Necrobinder), lots of UI & UX improvements, more card art, and some shiny new main menu music!

Items in this note

33 cards

Uproar
Attack
2
Deal 6 damage twice.
Play a random Attack from your Draw Pile.
Void Form
Power
3
Ethereal.
End your turn.
The first 2 cards you play each turn are free to play.
Black Hole
Power
1
Whenever you spend or gain , deal 3 damage to ALL enemies.
Bombardment
Attack
3
Deal 18 damage.
At the start of your turn, if this is in your Exhaust Pile, play it.
Exhaust.
Cleanse
Skill
1
Summon 3.
Exhaust 1 card from your Draw Pile.
Deathbringer
Skill
2
Apply 21 Doom and 1 Weak to ALL enemies.
Debilitate
Attack
1
Deal 10 damage.
Vulnerable and Weak are twice as effective against the enemy for the next 2 turns.
Devour Life
Power
1
Whenever you play a Soul, Summon 1.
Drain Power
Attack
1
Deal 10 damage.
Upgrade 2 random cards in your Discard Pile.
Eidolon
Skill
2
Exhaust your Hand.
If 9 cards were Exhausted this way, gain 1 Intangible.
End of Days
Skill
3
Apply 29 Doom to ALL enemies.
Kill enemies with at least as much Doom as HP.
Flatten
Attack
2
Osty deals 12 damage.
This card costs 0 if Osty has attacked this turn.
Furnace
Power
1
At the start of your turn, Forge 5.
Glitterstream
Skill
2
Gain 11 Block.
Next turn, gain 5 Block.
Hand of Greed
Attack
2
Deal 20 damage.
If Fatal, gain 20 Gold.
Hang
Attack
1
Deal 10 damage.
Double the damage ALL Hang cards deal to this enemy.
Hidden Gem
Skill
1
A random card without Replay in your Draw Pile gains Replay 2.
Ice Lance
Attack
3
Deal 19 damage.
Channel 3 Frost.
Invoke
Skill
1
Next turn, Summon 2 and gain .
Lightning Rod
Skill
1
Gain 4 Block.
At the start of the next 2 turns, Channel 1 Lightning.
Omnislice
Attack
0
Deal 8 damage.
Damage ALL other enemies equal to the damage dealt.
Orbit
Power
2
Every 4 you spend,
gain .
Particle Wall
Skill
0
2
Gain 9 Block.
Return this card to your Hand.
Prepared
Skill
0
Draw 1 card.
Discard 1 card.
Reaper Form
Power
3
Whenever Attacks deal damage, apply that much Doom.
Resonance
Skill
1
3
Gain 1 Strength. ALL enemies lose 1 Strength.
Right Hand Hand
Attack
0
Osty deals 4 damage.
Whenever you play a card that costs or more, return this to your Hand from the Discard Pile.
Scourge
Skill
1
Apply 13 Doom.
Draw 1 card.
Sleight of Flesh
Power
2
Whenever you apply a debuff to an enemy, they take 9 damage.
Synthesis
Attack
2
Deal 14 damage.
The next Power you play costs 0 .
The Scythe
Attack
2
Deal 13 damage.
Permanently increase this card's damage by 4.
Exhaust.
Thrumming Hatchet
Attack
1
Deal 11 damage.
At the start of your next turn, return this to your Hand.
Toxic
Status
1
At the end of your turn, if this is in your Hand, take 5 damage.
Exhaust.

Relics, potions and powers

Beautiful BraceletToolboxTuning ForkTwisted FunnelRoyaltiesStrengthDoomArtifactBlock Next TurnDexterityEnergy Next TurnEntropyFocusPainful StabsPlatingThe HuntThornsTyrannyVigorWeak

Enemies and events

OstyNonupeipeLagavulin MatriarchPotion CourierSlithering StranglerTerror EelThe Lantern KeyTinker Time

Content

Ironclad

  • Added Laughing Stone relic

Necrobinder

Regent

Ancients

Balance

General

  • Fatal effects like Hand of Greed card no longer trigger on infinitely-reviving enemies like Decimillipede unless they've been killed for the final time

Ironclad

  • Nerfed Unmoveable card: Block decreased from 6(8) -> 4(5)

Defect

  • Nerfed Compute card:
  • Bit Rot status cards added to Discard pile increased from 1 -> 2
  • Buffed Uproar card: damage increased from 9(13) -> 11(15)

Necrobinder

  • Buffed Deathbringer card:
  • Now also Applies 2 Weak to ALL enemies
  • Rarity increased from Common -> Uncommon
  • Buffed Devour Life card:
  • Now has Retain
  • Upgrade changed from cost reduction -> +1 Strength
  • Buffed Drain Power card: upgraded cards increased from 1(2) -> 2(3)
  • Buffed Empower card: now also says "Osty no longer loses Buffs on Death"
  • Buffed End of Days card: Doom increased from 26(34) -> 29(37)
  • Buffed Flatten card: now checks each time you have Summoned this combat instead of this turn
  • Changed Scourge card:
  • Energy cost decreased from 1 -> 0
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Necrobinder (continued)

  • Doom decreased from 18(23) -> 9(12)
  • Buffed Symbiosis card: Energy cost decreased from 2 -> 1
  • Buffed Tag In card: Strength increased from 2(3) -> 3(4)

Regent

  • Nerfed Black Hole card: Energy cost increased from 0 -> 1

Colorless Cards

Art

User interface & experience

General

  • Back button is no longer shown while the Timeline is growing (its not interactable anyways)
  • Created Map Select FTUE for first time map open
  • Further optimized startup and menu load times
  • Hovertips for locked Epochs no longer go offscreen
  • Added previous + next Epoch navigator buttons
  • Updated timing for when the Timeline Completed achievement is shown
  • Removed Select Room message on map screens
  • Swapped chapter and story label positions as well as some formatting to make it look nicer
  • The year for each Era column now shows up 0.5s faster
  • Added controller hotkey to preview all card upgrades in the deck view
  • Discarding a potion no longer breaks controller navigation

Regent

  • Orbit card's power icon no longer flashes when you spend 0 energy to play a card
  • Particle Wall card now pauses for a moment while being played so it feels less jarring when it returns to your hand
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Colorless Cards

  • Contractility card now uses the Block Next Turn power
  • Entropy power hovertip's card count is now properly colored blue

Potions & Relics

  • Nye Essence and Ancient Tea Set relics now display the Energy hovertip

Events

  • Potion Courier event's potion count in the "Grab Potions" option is now properly colored blue

Audio

  • Added new Main Menu music

Wording

  • Renamed Energized power to Energy Next Turn
  • Added a missing period to The Defect's character selection screen description.
  • Removed stray quotation mark from Defect's "Ooh Shiny!" Epoch description
  • Updated Defect4 Epoch
  • Fixed Royalties power name from "Royalties Power" -> "Royalties"
  • Fixed typo in Tyranny power
  • Fixed typo in Electrodynamics power

Bug fixes

General

  • Cards no longer get stuck on screen if they are queued before all cards are drawn and the combat ends
  • Card targeting now cancels itself once the headbutt card selection screen appears
  • Cards with no on-play logic (like Toxic) no longer instantly disappear from the play area when played
  • Clicking on a creature with a mouse no longer breaks controller navigation
  • Energy hovertip no longer displays the colorless energy icon while in a climb
  • Fixed divergences related to differing potion unlock states
  • Fixed deck view cards going off screen
  • Painful Stabs power no longer flashes if Wounds were not applied
  • Rerolling card rewards no longer breaks controller navigation
  • The run timer now ends as soon as you beat the Act 3 boss
  • Vigor power is now properly previewed in Attack card descriptions and monster intents
  • When the Card Library is viewed during a run, it no longer shows the current character's energy icons in other characters' card text
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Silent

  • The Hunt power now gives a Rare card reward at bosses
  • Twisted Funnel relic no longer gets applied before start of turn Artifact
  • Upgraded Prepared card now respects the order cards were selected

Defect

  • Fixed Glass Orb going negative when it loses temporary focus
  • Uproar card now properly moves the chosen card to the discard pile if it's Unplayable
  • Uproar card now properly shuffles your discard pile into your draw pile if your draw pile is empty

Necrobinder

  • Osty attacks no longer glow red when combat ends
  • Single-target Osty attack cards no longer hit all enemies

Regent

  • Glitterstream card now properly previews block-modifying buffs (like Dexterity) on the next-turn block value in its description
  • Void Form card no longer counts auto-plays from effects like Bombardment against the 2-cards-per-turn limit

Colorless Cards

Potions & Relics

  • Fixed visual bugs when buying multiple potions/relics from the same slot with the Courier relic
  • Heart Piece relic no longer works outside of combat
  • Heart Piece relic now properly excludes damage dealt to Osty from its 20-damage-per-turn threshold
  • Starter Flare relic no longer wakes Lagavulin Matriarch up before she can gain block from her Plating power
  • Toolbox relic now properly triggers before you draw your opening hand
  • Tuning Fork relic can no longer flash at the end of combat

Ancients

Events

  • Players can no longer mash "Fight" choice in Lantern Key event
  • Fixed ordering issue on Abssyal Baths event on "Immerse" choice
  • Tinker Time event now properly shows the "Body" word choice as giving the card 3 Strength instead of 5

Multiplayer

  • Fixed softlock that would occur when autoplaying multiplayer cards that require targeting an ally
  • Fixed a state divergence related to Focus and Glass Orbs
  • Fixed state divergence related to playing Void Form when other player had already ended their turn
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